"disintegrating" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} disintegrating (not comparable)
  1. That causes disintegration. Tags: not-comparable Derived forms: disintegratingly
    Sense id: en-disintegrating-en-adj-orsH02ED Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 8

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} disintegrating
  1. present participle and gerund of disintegrate Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: disintegrate
    Sense id: en-disintegrating-en-verb-U4mTVhv0
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          "ref": "1916 November 22, Hugo Gernsback, “Baron Münchhausen's New Scientific Adventures”, in The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 539, column 2:",
          "text": "\"By means of the purple disintegrating rays, the site to be used later for agricultural purposes is treated exactly as is the canal proper.\"",
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          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 186:",
          "text": "The city did not evolve up from the ground, it descended from Heaven; the me's, the divine laws which constitute the program for civilization, were carried by Inanna from the seat of Enki at Eridu to her beloved Erech (Uruk); without these divine laws, no city can hold together, no wall can stand against the disintegrating wind of the desert.",
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